The Power of Public Health, Nursing: Creating Change through a Commitment to Collaboration

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The Power of Public Health, Nursing Creating
Change through a Commitment to Collaboration

• Betty Bekemeier
• May 4, 2005

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Outline

• Nursing pioneers of social justice
  collaborative reform
• Nursing policy practice
• Our privilege in communities
• Barriers to a practice of reform broad
  collaboration
• What we can do differently

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• Collaboration
• exchanging information and sharing or pooling
  resources for mutual benefit to achieve a common
  purpose.
• Collaborative Leadership
• Someone who safeguards and promotes the
  collaborative process.

• Social Justice
• addressing the social conditions that underlie
  health problems or seeking an equitable
  distribution of protection from disease and
  disability for all people.

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American Nurses Association

• Collaboration is not just cooperation, but it is
  the concerted effort of individuals and groups to
  attain a shared goal By its very nature,
  collaboration requires mutual trust, recognition,
  and respect.
• Code of Ethics with Interpretive Statements (2001)

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American Nurses Association

• It is the nurses role to act to change those
  aspects of social structures that detract from
  health and well-being.
• Code of Ethics with Interpretive Statements (2001)

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National Quad Council

• The goal of public health nursing is the
  prevention of disease and disability for all
  people through the creation of conditions in
  which people can be healthy.
• Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing
  Practice (2000)

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Turning Point Collaborating for a New Century in
Public Health

• Bobbie Berkowitz, Ph.D., RN, FAAN,
• Turning Point National Program Office,
  University of Washington

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Turning Points Purpose

• Improve transform the public health
  infrastructure through collaborative models
• Build relationships create a planning
  environment for health improvement
• Improve population health outcomes
• Impact health policy

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Problem Types

• Type I A broken leg
• Type II Air pollution
• Type III Problem drug use

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• Our often intimate relationships with vulnerable
  populations make us responsible to participate
  fully with themas people learn to perceive
  social and political contradictions, they become
  able to take action against oppressive structures
  in their lives (Ford-Gilboe Campbellon
  Friere, 1995)

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Exercise intentional politics
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• In 1932, Lincoln Steffens wrote, What is true
  of business and politics is gloriously true of
  the professions, the arts and crafts, the
  sciences--the best picture has not yet been
  painted, the greatest poem is still unsung, the
  mightiest novel remains to be written. And we
  echo this day that the most spectacular
  contributions of public health are still
  unimagined. The finest solutions are still before
  us. (Foege, 1997)

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